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. 2021 Apr 12;22(8):3971. doi: 10.3390/ijms22083971

Table 2.

A summary of outstanding recent bioprinting studies for human tissue.

Bioprinter Types Material Polymer Concentration (w/v) Cell Type Cytocompatibility Application Reference
Inkjet-based alginate/collagen na/0.1% hAFSC na bone, brain [46]
1%/0.3% hAFSC
dSMC
bEC
90%, day 7 vascular, bone [11]
PEGDMA/HA 20%/2% hMSC 86%, day 21 bone [47]
PEGDMA/
GelMA
10%/1.5% hMSC 80% bone, cartilage [67]
Laser-assisted HA 60% MG63 ~100%, day 2 bone [68]
alginate/HA 0.5%/15% HOP high, day 15 bone [34]
alginate 1% MG63 high, day 4 bone [51]
alginate 2% hMSC na bone, cartilage [69]
fibrinogen/hyaluronic acid 1.3%/1% ECFC 98%, day 0 adipose, vascular [70]
Extrusion-based alginate 3% MG63 80%, day 0 TE (general) [68]
3.5% MSCs 93%, 4 h bone [71]
3% MC3T3 93%, day 1 bone, liver [72]
3.5% MC3T3 94%, day 1 bone [73]
3.5% MC3T3 85%, day 1 bone, vascular [74]
3% MG63 95%, 4 h bone, TE [75]
10% hMSC 85%, day 7 bone [58]
10% MSC 89%, 5 h bone [56]
alginate/gelatin 0.8%/4.1% hMSC 85%, day 14 bone [76,77]
alginate/gelatin/graphene oxide 0.8%/4.1%/0.1% hMSC 92%, day 42 bone [78]
alginate/collagen I/GAG 4%/2%/na MC3T3 88%, day 1 bone, liver [79]
alginate/gelatin 5%/5% SaOS-2 92%, day 1 bone [80]
alginate/gelatin/HA 2%/10%/8% hMSC 85%, day 3 bone [24]
alginate/gelatin/carboxymethyl chitosan 1%/10%/0.1% hMSC >85%, day 2 TE (general) [81]
alginate/GelMA 4%/4.5% HUVEC 80%, day 1 TE (general) [82]
alginate/matrigel/CaP 10%/na/10% MSC/EPC na bone [83]
alginate/PCL 3.5%/na MSC na bone [84]
agarose 1.5% hMSC/
MG63
excellent, day 21 TE (general) [85]
collagen I 2% MG63 >90%, day 14 bone, cartilage [86]
GelMA/gellan 10%/1% MSC 90%, day 3 bone [87]
GelMA/collagen 5–20%/0.01–0.1% MSC 95%, day 28 bone [88]
gelatin/fibrinogen/hyaluronic acid 3.5%/2%/0.3% hAFSC 91%, day 1 bone, ear, muscle [15]
matrigel/CaP na/15% MSC 81%, day 1 bone [89]
matrigel na MSC 86%, day 7 bone [57]
alginate 2% MSC >86%, day 14
F127 25% MSC 4%, day 3
agarose 1% MSC 70%, day 7
MeHA 2.5% fibroblast 96%, day 0 TE (general) [90]
GelMA 5% fibroblast 95%, day 7
PEGDA 5% fibroblast >87%, day 7
NorHA 2% fibroblast >87%, day 7
silk fibroin 3% MC3T3 70%, day 2 TE (general) [91]
silk fibroin/gelatin 8%/15% hTMSC 96%, day 1 bone, cartilage [92]

HA: hydroxyapatite; PEGDMA: poly(ethylene glycol)dimethacrylate; GelMA: gelatin methacrylamide; GAG: gly-cosaminoglycan; MeHA: methacrylated hyaluronic acid; NorHA: norbornene-functionalized hyaluronic acid. hAFS: human amniotic fluid-derived stem cell; dSMC: canine smooth muscle cell; bEC: bovine aortic endothelial cell; MSC: mesenchymal stem cell; HOP: human osteoprogenitors; MG63: human osteosarcoma cell; SaOS-2: human osteogenic sarcoma cell; MC3T3: preosteoblast cell; ECFC: endothelial colony-forming cell; HUVEC: human umbilical vein endo-thelial cell. na: not available; TE: tissue engineering.